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Michael and Marilyn Wertheimer: Where was CWA coverage?

Posted:
04/15/2016 07:20:20 PM MDT

What happened to coverage of events at the Conference on World Affairs this year? Every year since we first subscribed to the Daily Camera more than a half century ago, there were multiple stories every day during that week, reporting on CWA events of the preceding day. This year the coverage was sporadic and extremely sparse. Was this an editorial decision because the likes of Molly Ivins, Buckminster Fuller, and Roger Ebert are no longer participants, or in protest against the change in the directorship of the conference? Is the Conference on World Affairs no longer newsworthy?

Michael and Marilyn Wertheimer

Boulder

Editor's note: The Camera's editorial positions have no influence on the decisions of news editors about story assignments and selection. While coverage this year was less than in some prior years, the Camera published seven stories about the conference during CWA week, including a prominent Sunday front-page piece advancing the event, front-page coverage of Steve Wozniak's keynote, and daily panel previews on the Local section front.

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